Hunting 101 Class 3 -- Wednesday Period 7

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

When the students entered, they saw John sitting at his desk and two tables set out at the front of the room. One holds the sign in sheet and a pile of handouts. The other holds a number of curious items.

John waited until all his students had filed in and taken their seats.

"So last week you faced your first senario with a ghost. Nobody managed to get themselves killed and everyone eventually managed to take out the ghost." He leaned back on his desk. "Unfortunately, a number of you also managed to take out the house. Two things it's good to remember: don't burn down a house while you're still in it. And ghosts can turn incorporeal at will. You can't set them on fire."

John pushed away from his desk and went over to a side table where a number of items were laid out. "There are however a few things that you can use when fighting a ghost that actually do more harm to them than to you. Iron temporarily disrupts a ghost's energy. Anything you can find that's iron -- some crowbars, fireplace pokers, cast iron frying pans -- " John had examples of each of these and held them up in turn, "can be used as a weapon against a spirit." He smiled wryly. "And it won't burn down the house."

He the frying pan down and moved down the table where he picked up a salt shaker. "Salt is probably one of the most versatile weapons a hunter can have. Salt circles can be used for protection against not only ghosts but demons and some other evil entities." He put the shaker down and picked up a small crystal. "Salt can also be used offensively and rock salt such as this is the easiest to handle. It disrupts a ghost's energy much the same way iron does. Rock salt pieces like this or some larger, can be thrown, either by hand or using a weapon such as a sling shot." He moved down the table a little bit more to where there was a pile of much smaller crystals. "Smaller crystals such as these can be useful as well, when packed into shotgun shells." He picked up such a cartridge also sitting on the table. "You've heard of buckshot?" John grinned. "Well this is ghostshot.

"And it's not something you can just buy from any sporting goods store. You have to make it yourself." John handwavily demonstrated how to load shotgun cartridges with rock salt, explaining how as he went. When he was done he headed back over to his desk. "All the information we've discussed is covered in the handout you took at the beginning of class, including a list of steps in how to reload shotgun shells. Feel free to come up and examine everything, and try your hand at making rocksalt cartridges. Also I'd like to know how much experience and how comfortable each of you is with firearms, so I can set up balanced groups for next week's practical."



[OOC: wait for OCD is up, have at it :)]

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Check out the exhibits

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

Look at the objects, try the reloader, talk amongst yourselves

Re: Check out the exhibits

[forgottenpants]

Pete wasn't terribly interested in most of the stuff, since cast iron wasn't exactly a rarity where he was from, but he did spend quite awhile messing about with the reloader.

Just made him miss his piece more, though.

Re: Check out the exhibits

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna spun the poker a few times, seeing if she could use it as a sword

Re: Check out the exhibits

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner glanced over from where he was doing the same thing. "Guess I wasn't the only one who had this idea."

Re: Check out the exhibits

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna grinned. "The weight is a little off." She turned so her left hip was visible. And Lightning's hilt.

Re: Check out the exhibits

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, it's not quite the same as -- they let you carry a sword and not get in trouble for it?" Conner asked, impressed. He peered at the crystal on the hilt. "Wow. It looks like it's seen some action, too."

Re: Check out the exhibits

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna grinned. "I aksed the very first principal and the rest have grandfather claused me in. Plus, I'm a very responsible girl who never ever uses Lightning for anything but practice. Really. And it has. I've had it for ... five or so years now? Six?"

Re: Check out the exhibits

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Nice," Conner said admiringly. "Mine's in the salle. Not the one I used to have, but close enough to what I'm used to. This poker's kind of awkward."

Re: Check out the exhibits

[demonbelthazor]

Bel poked at the salt. What. Ever.

Re: Check out the exhibits

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

"This stuff actually work?" Jim asked, doing some poking of his own. He was still kind of skeptical about this whole thing.

Re: Check out the exhibits

[demonbelthazor]

Bel snorted and sprinkled some salt around himself. Then stepped right over it. "Yeah, right," he said.

Re: Check out the exhibits

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

Jim snorted himself. "I feel so much safer now," he said sarcastically.

Re: Check out the exhibits

[demonbelthazor]

Bel grinned. "Mr. Winchester there still has a thing or two to learn about hunting demons," he said.

Re: Check out the exhibits

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

Jim glanced over at the teacher. "He seems to know his stuff . . . not that I would know anything about it."

Re: Check out the exhibits

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe shook her head as she looked at the salt. She was pretty sure that the demons she had dealt with had no problems with salt.

Re: Check out the exhibits

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter frowned at the poker and totally didn't feel for its balance. He did check out the shell reloader and wonder if there were anyway to get an arrow to disperse rock salt. Or a slingshot maybe.

Re: Check out the exhibits

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner picked up a crowbar and tried to wield it like a really short staff. That wasn't working so well, unfortunately, so he went on to look at the reloader, all the while pondering if you could make salt-lasers somehow.

. . . nah.

Re: Check out the exhibits

[socksofcool.livejournal.com]

Seely fiddled with one of the frying pans.

Re: Check out the exhibits

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn was still a little skeptical about the salt, but Sam and Dean trusted it, and it certainly couldn't hurt. Even she could admit that she had very little experience with ghosts.

Given the choice, she'd much prefer using a slingshot and salt over a shotgun, and she tested the salt crystals in her hand. She also ignored the presence of the frying pan, hoping that Dean hadn't said anything about it to his dad.

Re: Check out the exhibits

[likethegun]

"I'm surprised you're not playing with your weapon of choice," Sam said, smirking as he came up behind Dawn.

Re: Check out the exhibits

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Your dad didn't have any stakes," Dawn said, then realized what he'd meant. She pouted. "Hey!"

Re: Check out the exhibits

[likethegun]

Sam laughed. "I'm sure you're good with a stake, but a frying pan can be just as bad for a ghost."

Re: Check out the exhibits

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"What? But doesn't it go right through them?" Dawn asked, obviously having missed part of the lecture by daydreaming. "What's your favorite?"

Re: Check out the exhibits

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter was particularly interested in the reloader, spending most of his time with it, loading shotgun cartirdges, taking notes, and generally wondering how effective silver shot would be.

Re: Check out the exhibits

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Peter played with the crowbar a little. This kind of thing would work fine.